[Python-Dev] Fuzziness in io module specs (original) (raw)

[Python-Dev] Fuzziness in io module specs - PEP update proposition

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Sep 20 15:08:07 CEST 2009

Hello,

Truncate and file pointer semantics [snip]

The major problem here is that you are changing the current semantics. I don't think the argument you are making for it is strong enough to counter-balance the backwards compatibility issue. The situation would be different if 3.0 hadn't been released yet.

Besides, we already broke compatibility with 3.0/3.1, let's not give users the impression that we don't care about compatibility anymore.

Regards

Antoine.

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